IN TEE OLD WORLD.
Th? ivt. rage size of a farm in North Italy 1.. i; idai-r.s; whi,'t-i ;i starving Sor/V Italy farms vary from 40 to IrO acre-'. Italy's congress is com posed of two bodies, but in the lower house there are .to t numbers, chosen’by the people, while the senate deco not consist of a fi - eu' number, larying from 200 lo SCO.-■ The ’tallau senators arc chosen by tiu king and ho d efHce /. r life. Then- is no pay for any ef the national legislator.-- ami all they get.in recognition of ibi ir oftico is free transportation on .be railroads. i : y is ‘.he home of toy mtinufactui o:. and recent stakst cs show that 41.000 persons derive their living from thit employment. Fonneberg pnuiuc-s half '.he toys made in Germany, but the industry is featured thr <: 11 ■■ n Vf ate rh ause n, Fr iedrick sr bu a, Ohniruf. llrnenHii, liilrierghausen. Schlens'ngcr and Coburg and other towns from the Black Forest to the Palatinate and the Sudetic mountains. The value of the product which 1* mai*nly’sent to Great Britain and the United States is $12,000,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3532, 8 June 1905, Page 4
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191IN TEE OLD WORLD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3532, 8 June 1905, Page 4
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